The Mech Touch novel Chapter 5063

As an engineer, Ves understood he needed to adopt a more systematic approach towards designing a new cultivation method for Blinky.

Trying to pluck out random ideas from his mind or following the first impulses that came to mind rarely led to optimal results!

If he wanted to do a proper job at this, then he needed to create a clear overview of his situation and his needs.

Ves exited the Sacred Hearth and moved around in the courtyard of the Sacred Temple in order to put his thoughts in order.

He activated a projected interface in order to list out the conditions he was working under at the moment.

"My main body and by extension Blinky are both operating in the Red Ocean, which is currently exposed to a modest degree of exotic radiation. I have no idea what to do with R particle radiation, but that is definitely not the case with E energy radiation! Different from the Milky Way, so much ambient spiritual energy is becoming available that my companion spirit can endlessly gorge on Messier 87's output without exhausting its supply. The only limitation is Blinky's own limited capacity to digest and absorb spiritual energy."

Ves recognized that these were extremely favorable circumstances compared to the conditions in the Milky Way.

It was not necessary for Ves to stick to cultivation methods that were optimized for times of scarcity. The Red Ocean gained so much access to the 'power of heaven' that it would be a waste if Blinky refrained from stuffing himself full of all of these free energies!

Once Ves listed out his current conditions, he turned his attention to his goals for Blinky.

"As a mech designer, I am good at designing and making stuff, but that's it. I don't have any other inherent advantages. For example, I will still remain highly dependent on resources supplied by other parties."

Ves recognized that this was an inherent shortcoming of the mech design cultivation method that had deliberately been left unaddressed.

He speculated that the Progenitors of Mechs did not want mech designers to become too independent and self-sufficient.

By making it so that mech designers all the way up to Star Designers became dependent on large and thriving populations of humans, this special brand of creation cultivators would never have any reason to undermine modern human societies!

The same applied for mech pilots, who would not be able to obtain any mechs or have any reasons to fight for without remaining an upstanding member of human civilization!

Although Ves understood that mech designers were set up this way for good reasons, that did not necessarily mean he had to play by the rules.

Ves happened to possess a lot less trust in human society and its institutions. He had experienced so many betrayals and breakdowns throughout his career that he did not want to remain stuck in this corner! _{freeωebnovēl.c૦m}

If the upcoming conflicts between red humanity and the indigenous alien races of the Red Ocean and Messier 87 ever went sour, then Ves needed to make sure that he would be able to do well even if he was all by himself!

"I need strength and resources." He summed up. "Blinky can cover both to an extent."

His desire for strength was not that strong. He learned from his mother that all qi cultivators possessed a massive disadvantage in any confrontation against high-level mech pilots.

Pure energy-based life forms such as companion spirits had it worse!

Therefore, rather than trying so hard to strengthen Blinky only for him to end up as a mediocre fighter, it was better for him to nurture a bunch of his own subordinates into god pilots so that they could fight in his stead.

His mother had already adopted this strategy, so there were clear merits to this approach!

That said, he did not want to give up on any easy opportunities for Blinky to be able to defend himself against different threats.

At the very least, his mother's cultivation method granted Blinky the option to evolve into a formidable threat against any other energy-based life forms!

Ves wanted to retain this particular quality as much as possible while also expanding on his other capabilities.

It was much more interesting for Ves to turn Blinky into a better helper for all of his productive activities.

Blinky already played a useful role by supplying Ves with lots of spiritual energy. The only problem was that the Star Cat was only proficient in producing a single variation of spiritual energy, which severely constrained what Ves could make.

Ves wanted Blinky to gain the ability to output spiritual energy with other attributes. Though he could already obtain a lot of different elements from different design spirits, he felt it was better to reduce his dependence on external parties.

"I also need to obtain a supply of physical materials."

This was a lot more difficult to accomplish. A lot of the example cultivation methods that his mother granted him did not contain any word about conjuring up materials. They mostly focused on increasing the direct combat power or other mystical capabilities of the practitioner!

None of them put a lot of emphasis if at all towards the production of resources.

This reflected an overall tendency of cultivation that bothered him a lot.

Many qi cultivation methods were incredibly selfish by nature. They only focused on strengthening the cultivator without describing any clear or obvious means of giving back to their society.

This was much different for mech designers who would never be able to make a lot of progress unless they explicitly made it their goal to benefit their own society!

"I can't repeat the mistakes of the past."

In order for Blinky to complement his career as a mech designer and serve a useful function to society, Ves did not want his design spirit to focus solely on cultivating his devouring and absorption capabilities.

Ves rejected the notion of turning Blinky into the Unending One!

Even if he could successfully modify the cultivation method provided by his mother so that Blinky retained his cute cat form, Ves still did not intend to pursue this path!

What he actually wanted was to turn his companion spirit into a resource processor of sorts.

"If Blinky can devour a lot of ambient spiritual energy from the environment and convert it all into useful spiritual energy and physical materials, then I can truly maintain an independent existence!"

He could obtain all of the phasewater he needed to produce his transphasic mechs and goods!

He could generate all of the universal life energy that he needed to accelerate the growth of all of his spiritual products!

Third parties would no longer hold as much leverage over him as before by restricting their supply of essential resources!

The advantages to Ves were too many to count. He could not think of many reasons to reject this approach.

"The only problem is making it happen." He frowned.

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